Sociologist Quotes

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the sixteenth century) it will infallibly discover congenial agencies (mechanical and political) of expression.
Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Art is anything you can get away with.
As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.
Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity.
Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.
Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. The people who call themselves modernists today speak a different language.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.
Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
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